Well said, I never really understood why the people who hate moderation don’t just create their own “free” community, but thinking about it now in the context of your comment it makes sense that a loosely-moderated “community” would never feel like a community in the first place.
Comment on Lemmy moderation is frustrating as hell
echo64@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Strong moderation is the only thing that keeps a community a community. A good community is a community that says, “No, you and your content are not welcome.”
The lack of that is why platforms like Twitter fail at creating community, just an amalgamation of people throwing their shit into a worldwide circlejerk.
What I’m trying to say is that moderators do not serve your they don’t need to really give reasons or be consistent. They shape the community they Foster.
If your content is removed, find a community that accepts you, because the communities you found do not.
Corgana@startrek.website 8 months ago
balderdash9@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I’m going to respectfully disagree; we should not leave things entirely up to the mods. The rules should be clear about what is or isn’t allowed in the community. Having vague rules that leave it up to mod discretion is a recipe for the mods to take things down for arbitrary reasons (e.g., a liberal mod taking down anything conservative). It is clear to me that this is already happening, because I made a meme complaining about the rules and that was also removed.
echo64@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Yes, and that’s okay. That community is fostered by that mod. You can make your own communities and moderate them how you like, too.
Communities are not paragons of free speech. They are for like-minded individuals to engage with each other.
Cowtailing to everyone’s opinion doesn’t create communities.
Maeve@kbin.social 8 months ago
Kowtowing?
david@feddit.uk 8 months ago
I’m happy to let mods carve out a bunch of niche communities with their own preferences. The fediverse is a big place. If you don’t like instances that are protective of LGBT+ folks you’re cutting it down a bit, but genuinely, you seem to be deliberately picking topics that troll the specific community you’re posting on, then you complained that they took it down. Post where your post will be welcome, stop complaining when you post where you already know it’s not. Reddit and twitter are pretty right wing and troll friendly. Maybe you’ll be happier there.
balderdash9@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
I hesitate to do this because I don’t want to get the post removed, but here are the memes that were taken down. Judge for yourself if they’re bigoted or as light-hearted as I think they are: imgur.com/a/8oNroeo
Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Anyone who is offended by these needs to calm down and remember that it’s ok to not take everything so seriously.
None of these are hateful in any way. The one about mods definitely has some targeted sass to it, but that’s pretty light.
cerement@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
you don’t have to – that’s the beauty of federation – if you don’t like one particular meme community, there’s a couple dozen others out there with different moderators and different moderation policies
treadful@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
It’s still worth talking about.